Learning from Words —— Testimony as a Source of Knowledge

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ISBN: 9780199575619 出版年：2008 页码：308 Lackey, Jennifer Oxford University Press

Jennifer Lackey reshapes the vigorous current debate on testimony by showing that the standard view of the transmission of knowledge by testimony is fundamentally misguided. Her radical new theory holds that testimony is itself an irreducible source of new knowledge, to which both speaker and hearer contribute.